Renton, Washington, United States
• 7 years of professional software development experience in C++, Python, PowerShell, and C# • 9 years of software testing, including manual and semi-automated scripting Past life: • 3 years running TPC-H performance benchmark workloads, while concurrently supporting other benchmarks • Over 10 years in enterprise server and storage hardware setup and support
Python/C++/C# dev, PowerShell/CMD scripting, ADO Collection Admin, documentation, unofficial on-site IT support, some QA, quarterly ISO 9001:2015 audits. https://ontoinnovation.com/products/novusedge-system https://ontoinnovation.com/products/precisionworx-vx4-system (as of 10/25/2019: Rudolph Technologies + Nanometrics == Onto Innovation)
Hardware/software QA, documentation, PowerShell/CMD scripting, unofficial on-site IT support, some Python/C++/C# dev, quarterly ISO 9001:2015 audits. https://ontoinnovation.com/products/novusedge-system https://ontoinnovation.com/products/precisionworx-vx4-system
• Provided hardware setup, BIOS, firmware, Windows Server, drivers, and other software installation & configuration, upgrades, troubleshooting, and support of prototype & production enterprise Itanium-, Opteron-, and Xeon-based HP Integrity, Business Critical & ProLiant HP servers, StorageWorks MSAs, and ProCurve switches to: o Increasingly remote HP Performance Engineering staff, enabling the production of over 2 dozen TPC performance publications. o Customers testing in the Enterprise Engineering Center (EEC) and SQL Server Customer Advisory Team (SQLCAT) labs. o Microsoft’s SQL Performance team. • Procured hardware and tracked shipments, inventory, and configurations. • Verified product information, pricing & availability for TPC Benchmark publication documentation. • Executed performance testing using PerfMon, xperf and internal testing tools. • Ran TPC-H workloads on various HP servers & storage environments, using SQL Server Management Studio and internal tools. • Consolidated 50 rackspaces of server hardware into 16 spaces for a lab move in Summer 2014, and had everything back up & running again the day after the racks were moved to another building. • Recognized by the Dragonhawk (Superdome X) platform team for leading the “Windows Server 2012 R2 / SQL Server 2014 / Superdome X / 3par” effort and being the HP point contact between the Microsoft & HP teams for all Win/SQL/SDX/3par efforts on campus 1H/2015. • Extended 3 times (4 months) past scheduled layoff date in order to complete hand-off of the Superdome X 10TB TPC-H benchmark effort to a remote engineer.
• Assembled server test platforms using piece components • Installed Windows & Linux server operating systems, drivers, BIOS, firmware, and test software • Documented test results • Worked with platform & firmware engineers to resolve issues • Performed other tasks as required in Intel's Compatibility Validation lab